broulik added a comment.
Theres's also the directory icon reading which potentially blocks, so doing both in the KIO slave improves the situation without having to introduce new API and rewrite everything and the kitchen sink. REPOSITORY R241 KIO REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D13757 To: broulik, dfaure, lbeltrame Cc: ngraham, kde-frameworks-devel, LeGast00n, michaelh, bruns